Leonardo Dicaprio may star in Christopher Nolan's Inception

The Warner movie will go into production in 2009 and will be released on July 16, 2010.

Inception will be produced by Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas. There are no details available about the plot of Inception except that the sci-fi movie is set in the “architecture of the mind.” Go figure.

In 2008, Leonardo Dicaprio appeared in Body of Lies with Russel Crowe, and Revolutionary Road with Kate Winslet.

Leonardo Dicaprio will be next seen in Martin Scorcese’s Ashcliffe, which was earlier known as Shutter Island. The movie that stars Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo Dicaprio is based on the novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.

Dicaprio and Ruffalo play two US Marshalls, in the 1950s, who go to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Ashecliffe, a hospital for the criminally insane, in Shutter Island.

Ashecliffe, will be released in October 2009.

Leonardo Dicaprio’s other forthcoming movies include The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and The Chancellor Manuscript, both of which are expected to be released in 2010. Dicaprio will produce both the movies.

Christopher Nolan is the director of movies like Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), and The Dark Knight (2008).

Although speculations are rife that Christopher Nolan will direct the third installment of the Batman series, it now looks like even if Nolan does direct the movie, which he seems reluctant to do, it will be some time in the making.

Ashecliffe is based on the novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane who is the writer of the bestseller Mystic River. The period thriller is set in 1954, when Rachel Solando a patient incarcerated in Ashcliffe, a hospital for the criminally insane, in Shutter Island disappears. Two US Marshalls Teddy Daniels (dishy Di Caprio)and Chuck Aule (dishier Mark Ruffalo) who are sent to investigate the disappearance of Solando get caught in a hurricane and strange happenings at Ashcliffe.

Ben Kingsley plays the head of Ashcliffe and Max von Sydow plays a psychiatrist. Michelle Williams plays Teddy Daniels’ deceased wife.

Ashcliffe’s filming started in May 2008 as planned. Flashback scenes of Teddy Daniels, who served as a US soldier in World War II,  at the Nazis’ Dachau concentration camp were filmed in Whittenon Mills in Taunton.

Medfield State Hospital was used to shoot some scenes. Shooting took place in Peddocks Island as well.  Currently, Ashecliffe is being shot on Nathan’s East Point.

The Scorsese – DiCaprio partnership has a very good track record. Gangs of New York (2002) was the first film in which Martin Scorcese and Leonardo DiCaprio worked together. The movie got Scorsese his first Golden Globe award for Best Director.

Their next collaboration, Aviator (2004) was a huge hit and was nominated for 11 Academy awards.

The Departed (2006) was the most successful Scorcese film at the box office. Scorsese won the Golden Globe and Academy award for Best Director. The Departed also won academy awards for for the Best Motion Picture of 2006, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Leonardo Dicaprio has won the Golden Globe for the Best Actor – Drama for The Aviator, but despite fine performances and two nominations for The Aviator and Blood Diamond, has yet to win an Academy Award.